Jennu Kurumba language

Jennu Kurumba, also known as Jen Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Jennu Kurumba/Kattunayakan tribe. It is often considered to constitute a dialect of Kannada; however, Ethnologue classifies it as a separate language. Jennu Kurumba speakers are situated on the Nilgiri Hills cross-border area between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Mysore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka, and Wayanad district of Kerala. The speakers of the language call it "nama basha" (transl. our language).[2]

Jennu Kurumba
Native toIndia
RegionKarnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala
Native speakers
100,000 (2011 census)[1]
Tamil script
Language codes
ISO 639-3xuj
Glottologjenn1240  Jennu

See also

References
  1. Jennu Kurumba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. "Indigenous People's Plan: Kattunayakans" (PDF). Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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